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Who says it's not legit? Maybe he wants to give it a shot when he does retire from hockey. He'll have the financial whrewithall to do it. He wouldn't be the first & certainly won't be the last.

I guess maybe football is football but did Shay and smith not go to school in the USA? Their could be a learning curve but after 9 10 weeks giving them even 10 reps a game each for the last games certainly wouldn’t hurt. Shay at middle or WIL would be huge. Smith seems more griffin position to me. And I like griffin. I think replacing Kyrie with Shay would be a smart thing. Shay replacing Tony would be ok also. And Ayers takes Kyries spot. Griffin. Shay. Ayers. Could be a solid group. Liked that Woodbey kid also tho in pre season.

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You're not downgrading by playing Canadian, rookie LBs for a few reps. Hamilton's defense improved when Veresuk got the nod at MLB.

It will replace a lot. Things like movie scores, commercials and places where the song isn’t front and center. For some pop music, this has almost already been happening with the formulaic writers. Just won’t need those humans. I think what this does do is put a premium on authentic musicians and live performances. I haven’t yet seen AI put emotion and lived experience into songs. And the more it generates and can flood the market, I think the more people will crave human created content.

Loved Peyton Logan interview

I see, so you're saying we only use 1.5-2 linebackers essentially in our defense and there aren't really a lot of reps for Shay and Smith because Jones and Wilson basically take them all? Doesn't that get back to our ongoing debates about a disconnect between the front office and the coaching staff?

Was non-contact on a scramble.

Depending on opponent and what they do, we play about 40-60% of the time on D with one LB out there since we've went to more 40 fronts...and it's usually Jones...then Jones and Wilson when we have 2 out with the dime subbing out. I don't count SAM as a LB.

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This kind of blew me away: AI creates a fictional female singer, then is given a premise and writes a song with the fictional female singer it just invented singing it with music and lyrics. All done in minutes. Will this replace human musicians?

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Moreover, practice is structured but games are dynamic, instantaneous and unpredictable. As a boxer said, "Everyone has a plan until the first punch lands".

Gauthier I think takes reps at times. Cadawallader I don’t remember seeing him on the field defensively ever

So i wonder if our stats nerd radio play by play dude can answer... has Gauthier taken any defensive snaps this year? Cadwallader? Because if they have that's egregious. Those dudes are teamers for life and any snap they get should be going to potential future starters.

Vaughters sort of belly-flopped on Brown after Brown was down, but that did not seem to have affected the ankle that was damaged. Weird.

Our Canadian LB's...Save for the holdovers Gautier and Cadwallader have all the metrics you want, and should be getting reps to slowly season them into the defence..Like other's said they don't need to be starting, but situational reps, rotation, games where outcome is pretty much a forgone conclusion is a definite must have, thats how you get guys either accustomed and ready...or determine that they not good enough. Nothing can replicate game reps on a multitude of levels, and you can only develop so much in practice, and there a limit to what you absorb from watching...you need to start to apply it, be it baby steps, or thrown right in...we fail to do that, and then when we do run into injury issues, we basically are forced to play injured people cause we have zero faith in the backup....they have zero experience (cause they never took any reps) We have seen this play out here every yr since 2021 Osh has his favorites, and his own personal reason's for it and just cause he is a HC doesn't mean it's the best, or right option. This is also how good teams over a real long time turn over their roster and keep things fluid and with potential...they don't wait yrs with zero evidence of a guy on the field to only then realize they just don't have it....and we start all over agian...or we stockpile a roster of coach's fav's and ST only guys and then all of a sudden in the spot we are now we do this already with long in tooth guys...and guys who been here a bit but never good enough to make the starting 12...and a lot of the times it actually weakens us....so you are right...it's gonna aid their development and maybe open eyes and realize wow this dude can ball...or if you were smart about it you would get rid of these guys...bring in new bodies and strengthen yourself...There is no law that says whomever you break camp with is the team...cut and dried...but seems with this group thats how they roll unless an injury forces the hand Collin Kornelson is a good case...showed zero last yr....went back for a 6th yr of University came back again...still showed nothing really...bumped a guy off roster who had played last yr....showed nothing in 6 games...and was knocked of by guy he bumped off...then weeks later cut....that shouldn't have been a 2 yr odyssey Thomas in TC this yr...who he outplay?...did he even participate?....there were multiple guys who showed more than he had in yrs....yet game 1...there he was...sucking wind...and sucking ass....this been a 12 yr odysee....that should have been put out to pasture 4 yrs ago really....In 4 yrs we could have developed a new pillar....but nope practices are a joke....if you dont earn/show it in TC and in pre-season...and have a coach whop favors and plays fav's and old vets that had success yrs ago....good luck getting on the roster Osh basically showed his mentality early in yr..I think late in camp...something to the affect "you look at a guys film from yrs ago...and see what he can do, and the success they had..., and thats why you have them here' ....or something like that....thats just a poor assed way to justify your decisions....yrs ago...in football a yr ago can be night and day...let alone yrs ago....plain stupid

especially in an era of barely any contact practices

I think the bigger question I have is what needs to happen (other than injury, rest, game already decided) for MOS and his coaching staff to substitute a starter for a dressed depth player? I'd enjoy hearing the real answers because it will vary per position, per player, per junction in the game/season. I'm assuming head coaches and their coordinators will have similarities in their approaches but also have their own unique and different nuances and philosophies.

There's roughly 60 reps a game on D. If Shay and Smith were playing say 12 reps a game that's only 20%. I can't see how them playing would hurt the club but I can see how it would help aid their development and help the team. If I am wrong, explain why.

Dru Brown is out this week. said it before, say it again, I hate seeing young gun QBs get hurt. League needs those guys on the field so bad, I don't care who they play for. (no disrespect on the Bomber who hurt him -- was it Vaughters? It was a clean football play. Just stupid bad luck.)

I offer you as an example out new starting safety, Cam Allen. He shone in training camp, had great credentials, and yet it took a half-season for him to be given a chance. And then he showed he belonged. (shakes head).

Or you could say he was evaluated thoroughly and promptly released.

Right. I don’t think anyone is advocating rushing them into the lineup and starting them, but I can’t see how people would be against giving them a handful of reps each game and maybe a few more in garbage time. IMO that would really help their development.